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That doesn't sound good! So the current "autonomous" capability isn't fully autonomous, and is less capable (at least in this near-ISS maneuvering regard) than

• dotnet00 2y ago
  I mean, it makes sense that if you have a crew onboard, you want to make the crew handle the cases when the software thinks something is wrong. Similar to how plane autopilots will disengage for many kinds of faults. If you don't have crew onboard, you don't have any choice but to rely on the software's judgement. I think the big problem is that the changeover is going to take several weeks, since Starliner should be able to fallback to flying autonomously if the crew happens to become incapacitated for some reason. The changeover should've just been a matter of sending a command from the ground or via a relay satellite.